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While I’m no fan of the BNP, the BNP is not illegal as an entity and I detest censorship. So when Bray wrote this on Peter Oborne’s article:

“While it is definitely true that the media are now in attack mode against UKIP, quite frankly that behaviour is nothing new against any party deemed a threat to the cosy political cartel.

The previous main target was the BNP, and they have suffered far worse treatment than Nigel Farage or anyone in UKIP has so far had to contend with. Be on your guard, there may be worse to come.

That brings me to my main point. The main danger to UKIP, now that the attack dogs have failed to squash you, is ballot fraud. The article I posted on Tim Stanley’s blog yesterday about that risk, and case history, has been removed, so it looks like I hit a nerve.

I gave details of third world stuff at the counts and expressly said you must seal ballot boxes with numbered seals and get any contacts you have within Town Halls to act as your eyes and ears to protect democracy.

I would like to repost the piece but that would probably be pointless, so if anyone saw it please convey its evidence and advice to where it is needed.”

… I offered to publish his original post, sight unseen. And here it is:

UKIP members and activists need to realise that their biggest threat from now on, is from ballot fraud. This has been previously conducted against the BNP, and UKIP would be daft to believe they will be immune from the same treatment.

I draw your attention to the declared result of the 2010 General Election in the Liverpool Wavertree constituency.

The declared BNP vote was the round figure of just 150, which equates to 0.4%.

The constituency contained six local council wards, and a witness at the count reckoned that in just one of those areas there were about 700 BNP votes in the piles on the counting table.

The other five areas were not as “enriched” as the first area referred to, and their vote would probably have been proportionally less, but still likely to have been in the 100-200 range each, at least. Therefore the true BNP vote at that Parliamentary Election was in all probability in the 1000-2000 range and around 90% of those BNP votes were “disappeared”. That should wake you up to the danger UKIP now faces.

I also have recollection of a vote in London where the ballot box seals were broken when they were brought into the count, and a suspiciously large number of BNP votes were declared void, consequent upon being spoiled because of voting for too many candidates, and the crosses on the ballot papers seemed to be different to each other. Draw your own conclusions.

UKIP and everyone else who is at risk from corruption needs to be planning all their defence measures now. Candidates can put their own seals on ballot boxes. That should be done with numbered seals in all risk areas. Where ballot boxes are stored overnight, or in the case of the Euro votes until the weekend because the rest of Europe is not voting until Sunday, all boxes should be sealed again with numbered seals. Preferably the rooms the ballot boxes are kept in as well, if that is possible.

If you have any supporters working inside the Town Halls, get them to operate as your eyes and ears.

Consider equipping them with secret cameras if the suspected situation is really bad. Basically do absolutely everything you have to do to stop vote tampering.

That is what has happened to the BNP in some places, and now UKIP are also threatening the Town Hall Mafias, you are next in line.

As Stalin said, “It is not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes”.

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"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, American Statesman and Dipolomat

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” -- Ayn Rand

“In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipotent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed. -- Ayn Rand, 1958

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some ... The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." -- John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920

Politicians are wordsmiths, most deriving from journalism, law and PR. Their craft is words. Those who believe what they say are fools. Judge them by what they do, not by what they say. -- Anon

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." -- Winston Churchill

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK, John F Kennedy, 35th US President